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Title: Will I Live to See 80?
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Published: Mar 23, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-03-23 20:47:12 by James Deffenbach
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Here's something to think about. I recently picked a new primary care doctor. After two visits and exhaustive Lab tests, he said I was doing 'fairly well' for my age. (I just turned 60.) A little concerned about that comment, I couldn't resist asking him, 'Do you think I'll live to be 80?' He asked, 'Do you smoke tobacco, or drink beer or wine?' 'Oh no,' I replied.. 'I'm not doing drugs, either!' Then he asked, 'Do you eat rib-eye steaks and barbecued ribs? 'I said, 'Not much... My former doctor said that all red meat is very unhealthy!' 'Do you spend a lot of time in the sun, like playing golf, sailing, hiking, or bicycling?' 'No, I don't,' I said. He asked, 'Do you gamble, drive fast cars, or have a lot of sex?' 'No,' I said. He looked at me and said,... "Then, why do you even give a shit?"
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#3. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
You'll live until 100; only the good die young. ;-) I don't drink, drug, smoke, exercise allot by swimming, bicycle and conditioning drills I learned in the Army and have a resting pulse of 58. I tuyrn 56 in less than two months. I plan to live until after 100 if I can, I'm enough of a trouble maker I am in the same boat you are in. ;-) (I eat meat 3-5 times a week.)
I eat some kind of meat just about every day. I can go without it a bit if I have to but I like it.
Roast chicken, crab-stuffed salmon, and prime tenderloin of beef are evening staples here. With the occasional link sausage and deep stuffed spinach pizza to complete the food pyramid.
Damn Lod, you just made my meal of Soylent Green sound so disgusting reading your coy, subtle boast here. (That's what my sister calls what I eat claiming I punish myself by eating way too healthy.) Tell the truth now, you do have a hamburger helper and leftover day or two mixed in with your life, don't you? ;-D
Back when, my father raised beef cattle and would take one to the local packing and storage facility to be dressed, packaged, and stored for later consumption. Well, the owner of the facility fell behind on his electric bill and the power was shut off over a weekend until the account was brought current the next week. This did nothing to enhance the flavor of all the meats that he had stored. To this day my brother and I are about as picky as anyone can ever be about the quality of beef that we will eat; and leftovers? that's why God created poochies. Chow!
you ever wonder about "chow" as military slang for "food" and the chow dogs chinese raise to eat? lod needs a few weeks of homelessness and dumpster diving... that would make his "Roast chicken, crab-stuffed salmon, and prime tenderloin of beef, link sausage and deep stuffed spinach pizza" taste ever so much better, and lod might become thankful enough for his food that his poochies might have to eat dogfood. here's hoping things hang together long enough for lod to die peacefully, in his sleep, with a tummyful of crab-stuffed salmon, before he has to start eating his poochies. dont eat me, daddy!
That's the trick, and the plan. So far, so good; but the thieves in deecee and wall street are always trying their best to change it.
i guess if you love your dogs enough, it's okay to feed them leftover crab- stuffed salmon... ...you'd be operating on a corollary of my dad's theory that "food is love"... my dad was not much for philosophy, he was a redneck hillbilly world-raper, and when he said "food is love", i was shocked. and now i feel guilty every time i waste half a can of beans.
Having both parents and grandparents who made it through our first Great Depression, waste of any sort was not part of the program. We learned early on, if you put it on your plate, best you eat all of it.
you must love your poochies a lot.
Yes, they're our children.
#19. To: Lod (#16)
i started living in that house neighboring the cat burglar in the early 80s, and after some atrocity committed by reagan, i vowed never to pay taxes again... so i quit working. i had some income from property payments, and some savings, but buying tuna for stray cats depleted me. early on, a neighbor dog started coming over, she'd sneak in the house and raid the kitchen garbage, and i'd chase her out of the house... then i started feeding her, then she moved in because her real folks worked all day and she was lonesome, i guess. when her real folks moved, they said the dog could stay with me... they could see she was happy. then i got poorer, and at the end, i was buying 50 lb sacks of dogfood for one shaggy little sheepdog, and 50 lbs of dogfood would last so long that the bottom of the bag had to have been inedible.
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#4. To: Ferret (#3)
(I eat meat 3-5 times a week.)
#5. To: James Deffenbach, Ferret, 4 (#4)
#7. To: Lod (#5)
#9. To: Ferret, 4 (#7)
Tell the truth now, you do have a hamburger helper and leftover day or two mixed in with your life, don't you? ;-D
#10. To: Lod (#9)
Chow!
#11. To: groundresonance, 4 (#10)
here's hoping things hang together long enough for lod to die peacefully, in his sleep, with a tummyful of crab-stuffed salmon, before he has to start eating his poochies.
#12. To: Lod (#11)
#13. To: groundresonance (#12)
...and now i feel guilty every time i waste half a can of beans.
#14. To: Lod (#13)
waste of any sort was not part of the program
#16. To: groundresonance, 4 (#14)
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